Author Event: Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

Institute for Policy Studies and Teaching for Change Bookstore invite you to a Women’s History Month event with Barbara Ransby about her new book on the colorful and amazing life of Eslanda “Essie” Cardozo Goode Robeson.

March 12, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

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Eslanda “Essie” Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin’s Russia, and China two months after Mao’s revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment–an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women’s rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, biographer and university professor Barbara Ransby, Ph.D, refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating black women of the twentieth century.